Yes, dear friends, it’s sad but true, the country is being governed by this concept. Also, it’s in our state, county, city and some neighborhoods.

My neighbors property is being worked on to make the house livable and there are problems in their front yard that should be done to fix the encroachments to the front yard of my property. But they don’t seem to want to do anything to make amends, although I think its their duty to do so.

Today we are in a genuine “snit” and we should all listen carefully, be diligent in our thinking to get this country back to where it once was, before its too late.

No other discussion, on this article, except by face to face meeting, no exceptions.

William Boozer

Russllville

A reply to Prof. Kenneth Walker

I am writing in response to different articles written by Kenneth Walker. The articles are written with great flair and style.

As you read his articles quickly without thinking about what he is trying to say, you may believe what he says is true. But if you stop and really read what he’s trying to convey, you will see that he is trying to manipulate the truth with fiction and shading of history with inconsistencies.

What’s best for the United States is socialism. That’s what his headline said in a Wednesday, April 14 article called “Democratic progressive capitalism, “another word for socialism.

He writes that the Republicans are for the greedy businessman that take from the poor and leave them nothing. But the Democrats want nothing more than to have government more favorable Federal human right’s and to help the less affluent.

The rest of the article says that we as a nation need to have a level playing field. In other words, you give your hard earned money from the sweat of your brow and many hard hours of working, and gave it to someone who does not want to work and thanks that is his right to have your wealth; why because the government says it’s his sovereign right.

Mr. Walker says that the government is made up of compromises between capitalism and socialism. The truth is that is that compromise is always from the conservatives, never by the progresses or socialist.

In his article in paper Tuesday Aug. 27 you also saw some discrepancies that I will try to unravel. Again Mr. Walker comes up with the leveling of the playing field idea again. Did it ever!

The Democratic Party in the 1930s voted in the most destructive laws that was ever passed; including the IRS, the Federal Reserve system, which is no part of the United States government, and closed union shops. In the article he talked about The 1960s Civil Rights Act, he insinuated it was the Democrats that got it passed.

In reality it was the Democrats that filibustered for over 50 hours in order to try to stop the civil rights vote in the Senate; mostly coming from the states of the south that was controlled by the Democratic party. Other inconsistencies in the article states that the Democratic Party advocated freedom of choice; Choice of abortion on-demand of unwanted babies or the closing of charter schools.

The most egregious statement was when he said that the that the law emphasizing insistence on the separation of church and state. This was not in the constitution at all, and never was. Churches can talk about a policy or bill that is before Congress all they want, but it may not endorse a candidate from the pulpit. A church can talk about a policy it thanks that is against it’s religion and principles. These are some of the deleted facts that I think that should be known.

Robert B McCready

Russellville

Immigration

Just read your article on Steve Womack’s town hall meeting. I was one of the “older, white men there, and I’d like to comment on Blanca Estevez’s comments on immigration.

True, we’re all immigrants, in a way of speaking, but that sidesteps the real issue.

My great grandparents bought their own ticket to America, went through customs, renounced their loyalty to the German ruler, and never looked back. They became Americans. They took a double bitted axe into the hills of the northern Ozarks, cleared land, built a farm, helped build a church, and raised a family. all without food stamps, earned income credit, or any kind of “assistance.” Never in trouble with the law, paid their taxes, and so on.

The real issue? How many of Miss Estevez’s “La Raza” group can show the same kind of initiative and personal responsibility? I know there are some good ones. I know some of them. But it makes them all look bad when they complain and protest to get their way.

If I go to Mexico under the same conditions, it’s two years in a Mexican jail. no questions asked. Would Miss Estevez be satisfied if we adopted Mexico’s immigration laws? That would be fair, wouldn’t it? — and if you want to bring “christian responsibility” into it, maybe you should look at respecting your elders, too.